Question

Help creating a batch file for use on an FTP site

Asked by: grooverider80

Hello,

I need to create a batch file to transfer files on an FTP site.  Basically, I'm using these two snippets of code as my "reference" :

1.  @echo off
call setenv SCRL
ftp -s:%comdir%CheckSCRL.ftp

:exit



2.  open osftp.onesource.com
user
password      
bin
get balancesheet
get balancesheetconsolidated
get executives
get generalities      
get keyratioconsolidated
get keyratios      
get ownershipdata      
get statexecutives      
get statgeneralities      
get statownershipdata
disconnect
quit


That is what I was given to "modify".  Basically what I need to do is create something that calls a program that will transfer files out of a specific directory into another one.  Is this possible given the amount of code I have been given, because I was told with those two items I could "easily" edit them to make it work.

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Asked On
2007-09-25 at 09:45:31ID22851501
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file

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batch

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ftp

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Topics

Windows Batch Scripting

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FTP Servers

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Answers

 

by: usachrisk1983Posted on 2007-09-25 at 09:49:33ID: 19957128

Step 1 is your batch file.  Should work as is (replace user & password with actual user and password).

Step 2 is the script that runs after you FTP in.  Are you looking to download (get) files from the FTP server or upload (put) files on the FTP server?

 

by: grooverider80Posted on 2007-09-25 at 09:53:02ID: 19957166

I'm looking to transfer files locally, to the ftp site and a specific directory.

Also, here is 2 more snippets of code of this helps:

1.  This is the .bat file that coincides with 1
@echo off
call setenv SCRL
ftp -s:%comdir%getSCRL.ftp
if errorlevel 1 goto error
if not errorlevel 0 goto error

goto exit

:error
echo error ftping SCRL data...

:exit

This is the ftp file that coicides with 2

open osftp.onesource.com
FTP_SCRL
scrl7275      
bin
dir
disconnect
quit

 

by: cipPosted on 2007-09-25 at 10:42:31ID: 19957527

To change to a directory locally, that is to place your-self in the directory where your local files will be transferred to the remote ftp server:
lcd <local directory>

To change to a directory remotely, that is to place the remote FTP server in the directory where the remote files will be stored:
cd <remote directory>

To upload a file to the ftp server:
bin
put <localfile> <remotefile>

So, if you want to transfer the file data.bin which is in c:\foo to the remote directory "remotefoo" do the following in file 2:

open <ftp site address>
<username>
<password>
lcd c:\foo
cd /remotefoo
bin
put data.bin



 

by: SteveGTRPosted on 2007-09-25 at 10:43:11ID: 19957530

If all you need to do is make sure the downloaded files are in a certain directory, I'd recommend just changing to that directory:

@echo off
call setenv SCRL

pushd "c:\thedirectorywhereyouwantthefiles"

ftp -s:%comdir%CheckSCRL.ftp

popd

:exit

 

by: grooverider80Posted on 2007-09-25 at 11:08:04ID: 19957682

Is there any way possible to just transfer any and all files in say c:/foo, to the ftp site in one big chunk without having to do the files seperately?

open <ftp site address>
<username>
<password>
lcd c:\foo
cd /remotefoo
bin
put data.bin

This seems to only transfer one file..what if I want to transfer them all at once?

Sorry my knowledge is limited on this so bare with me if my questions are stupid.

 

by: SteveGTRPosted on 2007-09-25 at 11:09:58ID: 19957698

You might try using wild card characters. I'm not sure if it works in the standard ftp processing:

put *.*

 

by: usachrisk1983Posted on 2007-09-25 at 11:15:51ID: 19957748

use MPUT *.*

 

by: grooverider80Posted on 2007-09-25 at 11:39:09ID: 19957926

So use MPUT *.* instead of C:/foo?  What about MGET *.*?  Same thing?

So the 2 programs to run this now will look like?  Do I need anything else besides a .ftp and a .bat to make this work?

 

by: SteveGTRPosted on 2007-09-25 at 11:41:04ID: 19957945

lcd c:\foo
cd /remotefoo
bin
use MPUT *.*

 

by: usachrisk1983Posted on 2007-09-25 at 20:09:26ID: 19960438

To put it all together:

open osftp.onesource.com
user
password      
bin
lcd c:\localdir
cd /ftpdir
mput *.*
disconnect
quit

where c:\localdir is your local directory and /ftpdir is the remote directory.

 

by: grooverider80Posted on 2007-09-26 at 09:31:16ID: 19964474

That seems to work good USA..one last question, could I possibly write an error level log for this to say if it worked or not?  To confirm the file transfer?

 

by: SteveGTRPosted on 2007-09-26 at 11:34:06ID: 19965493

That's a little more complicated. You could always check errorlevel after the ftp line, but I'm not sure if that would give you a comprehensive results:

ftp ...

if /i %errorlevel% GTR 0 echo [%date%, %time%] Errorlevel: %errorlevel% returned from FTP >>c:\temp\ftp.log

 

by: usachrisk1983Posted on 2007-09-26 at 12:30:22ID: 19966005

Agreed Steve - and you can only get one FTP errorlevel, which probably ties to either a successful connection or the last file uploaded.

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